Bertius’ Miniature Map of Hesse Date of Publication_1920 Koeman B&H IV

Koeman B&H IV

Here we have to speculate

He seems to have been central to a circle of map-makers of similar Huguenot background

with original hand-colour

Bertius’ Miniature Map of Hesse Date of Publication_1920 Koeman B&H IVThis miniature map of Hesse is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them "undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps